Valerie Bertinelli told Wolfie not to release a Van Halen Biopic before she dies!

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Valerie Bertinelli told son Wolfie to 'make sure I'm dead' before any Van Halen biopic is released: 'Don't do it!" Valerie Bertinelli told son Wolfie to 'make sure I'm dead' before any Van Halen biopic is released: 'Don't do it!"




The "One Day at a Time" alum also revealed who she'd like to see play her in the event one does end up getting made during her lifetime.



Valerie Bertinelli isn’t ready to see Van Halen to make the jump (jump!) to the big screen anytime soon.


The One Day at a Time actress, who was married to late guitarist Eddie Van Halen for two decades, revealed on Monday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show that she has already notified their Wolfgang Van Halen that he can’t release a biopic about the band until after her death.


The revelation came up during a conversation with host Drew Barrymore about Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, which will be released in four separate installments focusing on each of the individual members in April 2028. “Oh god, I hope they never do one of Van Halen,” Bertinelli confessed. “Make sure I’m dead. I told Wolfie, ‘Make sure I’m dead.’”


Host Drew Barrymore immediately quipped back, “Oh you know they’re gonna do one of Van Halen.”


The 50 First Dates actress then asked Bertinelli who she’d pick to play herself in the biopic. “Oh… Selena Gomez. She would be amazing,” Bertinelli replied. She then quickly added, “But Selena, don’t do it! Please don’t do it!”


Barrymore was fully on board with Bertinelli’s dream casting, before noting that they'd just have to “figure it out together” when the biopic is inevitably released. “I’ll be dead,” Bertinelli teased, to which the host adamantly responded, “No you won’t!”


Earlier in their conversation, Bertinelli opened up about being compared to Yoko Ono — John Lennon’s second wife who, to this day, many Beatles fans unjustly claim is responsible for breaking up the band — while married to Van Halen.


When Barrymore expressed her confusion over the pair's connection, Bertinelli replied, “Oh you didn’t know that I broke up Van Halen?” Through her laughter, she added, “As if I had the power to break up a band.”


The comparison, however, never brought her down. “I wore it proudly,” Bertinelli said. “Yoko is an amazing woman. She’s an artist. And she did not break up the Beatles. The Beatles had their own issues.”


And, just like those Liverpool lads, Bertinelli noted that Van Halen “definitely had their own issues,” too.


“And it wasn’t all Ed’s fault, okay? I’m just gonna put that out there,” she clarified. “Everybody loves to blame Ed and he can’t defend himself — nowhere near was it all Ed’s fault, he was a quiet… he just wanted to write his music and play his music.” (Eddie, a Grammy-winning rocker and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, died of cancer at 65 in 2020.)


Van Halen's members have always had strenuous relationships with one another — and that hasn't changed even after the band officially disbanded following Eddie's death. Just last year, frontman David Lee Roth laid into Wolfgang Van Halen in an expletive-ridden rant in which he claimed that the 34-year-old earned his place in the band through nepotism.


Wolfgang responded to Roth's claims in a subsequent interview, explaining that he was "born into this Van Halen drama" and hasn't been able to shake it yet. He added, “I guess now that my dad isn’t here to be a target, I guess he went to the next best thing."


Drummer Alex Van Halen also revealed last year that a proposed reunion tour was cancelled after Roth refused to pay tribute to Eddie.

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[edwardv]

More important than who plays Val would be who plays all Eds on the road gfs?

[bklynboy68]

This woman is such a pill. She knows Al is considering it and just makes this comment.

Fuck off, already.

[Van Squalen]

Well, Val, it kinda was a lot Ed’s fault. A bit of Alex, a bit of Dave, but mostly Ed. A price of absolute genius, maybe.

I have zero interest in a Van Halen biopic. I’ve never really enjoyed those kinds of films, except Oliver Stone’s The Doors.

[Brett]

Can somebody make her shut the fuck up!!!

And of course, a lot of it is Ed’s fault. And he had DECADES to defend himself, which he did poorly. It’s not like he died 40 years ago. She’s an idiot.

Fucking enabler, even still.

[jimmy812]

Yeah, I'm not interested in a VH biopic. Of course, if one were made, I'd watch it, but I'm certain I'd be overly critical. Plus, with these kinds of films, it seems harder to do it on a band. Sure, The Doors kind of worked, but it was basically about Morrison. Bohemian Rhapsody was decent enough, but it was all about Freddie. The Dirt was horrible.
I guess VH would focus mainly on the brothers. And, lemme guess, the film will end on the 1984 tour? LOL

[Brett]

There’s no chance a biopic would be done to our satisfaction as hardcore fans.

[Van Squalen]

Exactly, especially not for us fanboys.

No name actors portraying the necessary nuances of D-Ro, the Tequila Pimp, the Dutch-Indo mafia, Sauce Sobolewski, and the Playstation Kid?

Ain't possible.

But hey...they could get Burt to play Gary Cherone.

[Little Intruder]

Fuck biopics, just release the VH Vaults!

[Little Dreamer]

"Don't Release" could actually be the name of the "Part Deux" of the VH Biopic. They lived and die by that slogan!

[Little Intruder]

I actually hated Oliver Stone's The Doors when it first came out. I thought it was clichéd drivel with bad wigs. I have come to tolerate it in recent years and just saw it again after Val Kilmer's death. Kilmer was pretty good as was the music segments but everything was just so ridiculously over the top. In other words, typical Stone crap. Just like JFK.

[Little Dreamer]

I think Bohemian Rhapsody is a fairly good biopic.

[Hamnerhead]

I've said it before: IMO, the only way to do the story justice and to leave proper room for these personalities to be explored is as a streaming series. Trying to fit a person's (let alone four people's) whole life into a feature-length running time always feels so two-dimensional to me.

The only time I've ever felt theatrical biopics really work is to choose a finite period. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is a good example, as it only covers a 3-year period of Dylan coming to New York until he goes electric.

[Little Dreamer]

I've said it before: IMO, the only way to do the story justice and to leave proper room for these personalities to be explored is as a streaming series. Trying to fit a person's (let alone four people's) whole life into a feature-length running time always feels so two-dimensional to me.

The only time I've ever felt theatrical biopics really work is to choose a finite period. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is a good example, as it only covers a 3-year period of Dylan coming to New York until he goes electric.

Reason Bohemian Rhapsody was made is that Brian May and Roger Taylor were in agreement about pretty much everything, and John Deacon stayed silent. When movie studios see the epic, permanent clusterfuck that is VH, I doubt they'll want to get involved. The ex wife is trying to kill the movie before a single actor has been cast! Typical VH.

[Little Intruder]

Val is just pissed because her own biopic is not being taken seriously.

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